Improvement in carriage-top standards



E. BETZ Carriage-Top Standard No 207,941.. Patented Sept. 10', 1878.

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UNITED STATES EUGEN BETZ, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ADOLPH "o sA E PLACE.

PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-TOP STANDARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,941, dated September 10, 1878 application filed July 29, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGEN BETZ, of Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Top-Standard for Childrens Carriages, of which the following is a true and accurate description, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawing.

The nature of my invention relates to an improved device of adjustable standard for supporting the canopy-top of a childs carriage; and it is my object to so construct the same that the standard may be inclined to any angle, and the canopy adj usted to any angle with relation to the standard, and that a single clamping-screw will secure both the standard and the canopy in their relative positions.

My invention consists of a standard pivoted at its extreme ends between a foot-piece and a top-plate, the former of which is secured upon the top of the body-sides of a baby-carriage, while the latter is fastened to the under edge of the canopy. Said top-plate has pivoted to it, near its ends, the eyed ends of two pendent rods, which are passed through guide-loops in the standard, and thence their ends enter between the plates, formingthe pivot between'the standard and the foot-piece, to be clamped between the same by the same boltwhich adjustably secures the standard to the foot-piece.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents an exterior perspective view of the standard complete. Fig. 2 is a section on line a: as in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the lower end plate of the standard while detached from the footpiece. Fig. 4 represents an exterior view of the lower standard-pivot, the clamping-nut being removed; and Fig. 5 represents a vertical cross-section through the lower standard-pivot, the foot-piece, and the shoe or carriage-fixture for attaching the standard.

A represents a plate, to be secured under the side edge of the canopy by two woodscrews, and having three lugs, to and I) 11, projecting from itslower face at equal distanceapart. 0 is the standard, shaped in outline like a violin, the upper extremity of which is secured against the central lug, c, of plate A by a rivet passed through both, so as to form apivot therewith. The lower end of said standardO consists of a circular concave plate, 0,

D is the foot-piece, consisting of a circular flat plate, (I, having a square hole through its center, and being connected to a cap-plate, e,- by two curved arms, f. The standard 0 is secured to the foot-piece D by a bolt, G, having 'a semi-spherical head, with a round shank under said head to enter the hole in circular plate 0, thence being reduced to assumea square shape for enteringthe square hole in circular plate d, and having a screw-threaded end,whieh engages with the screw-tapped hub of a handwheel-shaped nut, g. This nut, in being tightened, will clamp and rigidly hold the two circular plates 0 and 01 against each other, and will secure the standard at any desirable angle with the foot-piece.

H H are two round metal rods, the eyed upper ends of which are secured by rivets to the lugs b b of plate A. These rods are passed through guide-loops h in the standard 0, and

I, chambered from the bottom, and secured upon the top of the carriage-body sides by a wood-screw, t, at each end, and by a pendent lug, j, secured with a wood-screw against the side of the carriage-body. The top face of this shoe I is shaped in conformity with the bottom face of the cap-plate e, which is removably fastened thereto by a thumb-screw, J, passed through a central hole in cap c, and thence enterin g a screw-tapped hole in the shoe I.

The standards heretofore made and arranged to be adjustably held by a single clampingscrew were constructed to transmit to the canopy a determined position in conformity with the angle of the standard-as, for an example, with the Amidon standard, described in Let- SHOENINGER,

ters Patent N 0. 161,086, dated March 23, 187 5,

or such as has a freedom of adjustment to standard and canopy, requiring two separate pivot-holding devices, like the standard described in Letters Patent No. 164,195, granted to G. W. Marble on June 8,1875, While with my above-described improvement I can adjust the standard from a vertical to an inclined position in either direction, and can bring the canopy from a horizontal to an inclined or vertical position in either direction, each adjustment independent from the other, as far as angular positions are concerned, and yet I can secure both the standard and the canopy in their relative positions by a single clampingscrew.

For better symmetry of design, I employ two rods, H, although one might prove suflicient to accomplish the desired purpose.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A canopy-standard for childrens carriages, the pivotal top-plate A in which being adjustably braced by rods H, coupled thereto, and held by the same clamping device, adjustathe plates 0 and d by clamping said plates together, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

3. The herein-described top standard for childrens carriages, consisting of plate A, having rods H H, and being pivoted to standard G, having guide-loops h and plate 0, of footpieee D, having plate 41, and of bolt G, having nut g, the same to be constructed, arranged,

and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

EUGEN BETZ.

W'itnesses:

E. JEBsEN, EMIL H. FROMMANN. 

